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Schools Must Teach British Values to Keep Youth From Joining ISIL

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The UK's chief education inspector, Sir Michael Wilshaw, said that all UK schools must teach students, because youngsters need to believe that they belong to our society.

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MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Schools in the United Kingdom should teach students British values to offset the Islamic State (ISIL) extremist group’s recruitment campaign, the UK's chief education inspector, Sir Michael Wilshaw, said in an interview with British media.

Official estimates show that some 600 UK citizens have gone to Iraq and Syria to fight alongside militant groups, including the ISIL, but intelligence services believe the real figure could be as high as 2,000.

"It’s really important that all schools, whether they are faith or non-faith schools, whether in monocultural communities or not, teach British values," Wilshaw told LBC radio on Tuesday.

Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Education, Children's Services and Skills (HMCI) argues that it will be policy to "mark down" schools if they fail to teach interfaith tolerance.

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"I think these youngsters need to believe that they belong to our society, that there’s hope for them, that the education system is there for them," the head of the Office for Standards in Education, Children's Services and Skills (Ofsted) said.

Lack of hope and belief, Wilshaw argues, is wrought with "the temptation to listen to voices that say, ‘come across to Syria.’"

In June 2014, Ofsted published reports into incidents of alleged radical Islamization in five Birmingham schools. Unannounced inspections of the schools were conducted in September 2014, resulting in conclusions that the efforts to eradicate radical Islam employed by the schools were ineffective.

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Cases of radicalized British Muslims have received increased media coverage as of late.

Three young British mothers went missing with their nine children after failing to show up at their intended destination in Saudi Arabia late last month. The expanded family is suspected of having traveled to Syria to join the ISIL.

Another young Briton was reported to have committed a suicide attack in Iraq last weekend, while a British convert was reportedly killed in Kenya fighting alongside the al-Qaeda-affiliated Shabaab group the next day.

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